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yrammel 'July 12', 1927.

Unirse STATES PATENT kerrie e.

HENRY CAVE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T THE FULLER BRUSH COM- PANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OE CONNECTICUT.

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My invention relates more especially to that class of. cleaning implements above named, and an object of my invention, among others, is the production of a broom that shall be durable, particularly eiiicient for the purposes for which it is employed, and one embodying simplicity in vconstruction whereby it may be produced at a minimum cost.

One form oi' broom embodying my invention und in the construction and use of which the` objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a1 side View ot' a broom embodying my invention with the handle broken ott.

Figure 2 is an end view ot the same.

Figure 3 is a` side view of the broom body.

Figure l is a view similar to Figure 1, but `showing a slightly different form of construction.

Figure 5 is a plan and edge view of the `liber retaining band shown in Fig. 4,

Figure 6 is a side view of the upper portion ot the broom body showing this latter form ot construction.

In the accompanying drawings Vthe numeral 7 indicates the handle of my improved broom that may be of any suitable material and oi any usual shape, this handle project-L ing into a handle socket in one end of a metal head S. This head is ign-eterably 'formed from sheet metal in any Vsuitable manner, as by stamping or drawing, and. it preferably gradually widens from they handle socket to the mouth in Which the end of the broom body is received.

The ends 10 of the fibers are closely compacted and associated as by means ot a hold ing or retaining band 12 encircled about the ends of the fibers to firmly secure them. Stitching 13 may be employed, it desired, at a suitable distance itrom the end of the body to retain the fibers in place.

The inner end ot' the body is inserted with-v in the socket in the metal head 8 and is forced firmly into said socket, and rivets 14 are then inserted and driven or otherwise passed through the metal yhead and the broom body, these rivets being located alternately on opposite sides of the band 12, the rivets and b and vbeing so disposed or shaped that the rivets or band kwill have a staggered arrangement. This causes the retaining band to be indented into the mass of fibers and broom body 'to be thereby 'securely held within the socket in the; metal broom head and against movement in all directions.- In

the form of the structure shown in Figures A 1, 2 and 3 the holding or retaining `band is straight and the rivets-have a staggered relation, being located alternately on opposite sides.

In that form of the device illustrated in Figures 4, 5 and 6, thev structure is substantially the same asl that hereinabove described with the exception that the retaining band is oiE a little diii'erent form trom that hereinbei'orc vreferred to. This retaining band 15 is sinuously formed, lthe bends being preferably ot' angular shape and regularly located lengthwise oi the band. The bends on opposite sides ot the band are reversely positioned sor that when viewed inedge view,

as in Figure 5, openingsl are formed. In this form Vof construction the rivets 17 are located in a1 straight line, but when so located they are projected through the openings 16, or in other words, a single rivet will be located in the bend on one side of the band on one side of the metal head and in the bend on the opposite side of the band on the opposite side of the metal head.

In accordance with the provisions of the 'patent statutes I have described the prin ciples Vof 'operation of my invention together with vthe device which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is only illustrative, and that the invention may be rcarried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set out and within the scope ot the appended claims. i i

1. A broom including a broom body formed of strands closely associated and compacted at one end, a holding band encircling said strands nearthe end of the broom body, a. head encircling the end of said broom body, and rivets extending ythrough saidrhead and said broom body,

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said rivets and holding band being arranged broom body, a head encircling the end of to dispose part of the rivets above and the said broom body, and rivets extending! rest or tbe rivets below Said band. through said head and said broom body7 said 2.- A broom including a broom body band being bent to locate it above and beiormed of strands closely associated vand low Vsaid rivets.

compacted Vat one end, a holding band cncircling said strands near the end of the HENRY CAVE. 

